Archive: May 2012
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Awesome ‘bike hugging’ dog guards and rides his owner’s bike
Watch a video of an adorable bike-guarding dog in China.
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By growing food, Occupy the Farm helps a movement grow up
With the takeover of a University of California agricultural testing station, Occupiers move from envisioning a new world to creating one.
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Drivers unable to use turn signals properly
Drivers are always complaining how craaaazy bike riders are, what with their wanting to “share” the “road” and “biking” in “bike lanes.” Well, it turns out that drivers are really bad at using the roads, too. And especially at using their TURN SIGNALS. According to a new study from the Society of Automotive Engineers, 25 […]
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We catch too many sardines — but should we stop eating them?
The problem isn’t that people are eating too many sardines -- on the contrary, it's that we're feeding most of them to farmed fish (like tuna and salmon) and industrially farmed animals.
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Fighting coal export terminals: It matters
The fate of the U.S. coal industry hinges on its ability to increase exports to China and India. If activists can quash coal export terminals, they can hobble the coal industry.
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Generation Anthropocene: Students grapple with our global impact
Scientists say humans have become a geologic force on a massive scale, like an asteroid strike or an ice age. What do we do now?
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Your cell phone is killing millions of birds
I know that it is a tragedy when a person wants to check Twitter on her phone, and the service sucks and — aaaaahhhh — now she is bored. Bored, bored, bored, and AT&T is the worst, and why didn’t you wait for the Verizon iPhone? Luckily for bored humans, there are 84,000 communications towers […]
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Urban carnivores have higher survival rates than their country cousins
I heard this weekend that there’s at least one coyote living permanently in Central Park. Everyone’s heard a story like that recently — bears, coyotes, and other carnivores stalking through city streets and parks, right where we’d least expect them. But according to a new study, certain carnivores — raccoons and coyotes — do better […]
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Kashi promises (some) ‘natural’ products will be GMO-free
One benefit of having every food product in existence owned by big corporations? Big corporations are super touchy about their reputations. So when the internet got all up in arms about Kashi’s “natural” cereals being less than fully organic/GMO-free/grown by fairies, the brand (owned by Kellogg Company) announced pretty quickly that it would change its […]
